NEPRINTSEV Yury Mikhailovich

15 августа 1909 (Tiflis) — 20 октября 1996 (St-Петербург)

Painter, graphic artist

From the family of the architect. Initial art education has received in the Studio of the artist Б. А. Фогеля when the House of red Army in Tiflis. In 1926 переехал in Leningrad. Studied at the Studio of В. Е. Савинского (1926-1930), the Leningrad Institute of painting, architecture and sculpture (1934-1938) А. А. Любимова, В. А. Серова in the workshop И. И. Бродского; in 1938 выполнил thesis "А. С. Пушкин in the village of St. Michael". He continued his education at the graduate Institute of painting, sculpture and architecture (1938-1941) Р. Р. Френца and Б. В. Иогансона.

At the beginning of the great Patriotic war as a volunteer went to the front. Performed anti-Nazi leaflets, posters, portraits of soldiers, sailors, airmen; has created a series of front-line sketches and a series of gouaches "Besieged Leningrad".

he Lived in Leningrad. Worked mainly in the field of thematic paintings. Author of painting works: "signing of an agreement on socialist competition" (1939), "Hello, Leningrad!" (1947), "the Last grenade" (1948), "Lisa Chaikin" (1949), "Rest after the fight (Vasiliy Terkin)" (1949-1951; Stalin prize, first degree 1952), "the father Story" (1955), "Drink, boy, drink...", "Metrostroevtsy-проходчики" (1959); series of sketches of the "Leningrad in blockade" (1942-1943), cycle watercolor portraits of Kyivmetrobud employees.

also Wrote portraits, landscapes. Travelled around the Baltic and the Karelian isthmus, Central Russia, Crimea, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, England, Scotland; performed a series of landscape sketches and travel sketches. He was engaged in lithography, in particular participated in the album of portraits of "Heroes of the Baltic sea" (1943).

Worked in the field of book graphics; performed the illustrations for the book "the Queen of spades" А. С. Пушкина (1934, together with А. Н. Яр-Кравченко), "children of the underground" В. Г. Короленко (1947), "Stories about Sergei Kostrikov" (1949, 1954) А. Г. Голубевой "the Toilers of the sea" В. Гюго (1950), "Alexander Matrosov" П. Журбы (1950), "Sea stories" К. М. Станюковича (1951), "Stories" Л. С. Соболева (1957), "These days will not cease glory" Ю. П. Германа and С. С. Фарфеля (1957).